For many years our Bitter at the Poolside Bar has been Tetley's Smooth. Obviously a draft beer, not traditionally hand pulled keg beer. Primarily because hand-pulled beers don't travel well.

Recently Tetley's ceased all overseas distribution so we had to look for an alternative. (Click here for a great blogpost about Tetley Bitter by Richard Donkin!)

This was quite a big decision because we have quite a lot of bitter beer drinkers, especially those from the North. Our home-base has always been in Yorkshire so many of our guests are from the 'Northern Power House'.

After much debate, testing and tasting we opted for Caffrey's.

We had a fairly limited choice but settled on Caffrey's because it has a good flavour, travels well and pours right. Our customers feel that it is pretty good! However don't leave it to us to tell you, come and try it.